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Two public hearings are slated in the coming week over plans to “phase out” the current Jackson County Comprehensive High School facility. The first hearing will be Thursday night at 6 p.m. at the Jackson County School System board office in Jefferson. The second hearing will be at 6 p.m. Monday at Jackson County Comprehensive High School. ...
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A child was life-flighted to Grady Hospital in Atlanta following an incident in Jefferson around noon on Thursday. The two-year-old girl was reportedly burned on the arms and legs after a vehicle caught fire at the gas pumps at the Racetrac convenience store on Hwy. 129. Jefferson Police Chief Joe Wirthman said the child is in stable condition ...
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Services are being set for Nadine Crow, who died Tuesday evening. Nadine, the wife of Jackson County Board of Commissioners chairman Tom Crow, suffered a stroke in early January. According to a social media post by the family, visitation will be Saturday, Feb. 10, at First Baptist Church of Jefferson. The funeral will be Sunday, Feb. 11, at ...
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Services have been set for Nadine Crow, 69, who died Tuesday evening. Nadine, the wife of Jackson County Board of Commissioners chairman Tom Crow, suffered a stroke in early January. Memorial services will be held Sunday, Feb. 11, at 2 p.m. at Galilee Christian Church with Dr. Michael Helms and pastor Sande Bailey officiating. The family will ...
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The flu has been especially harsh this winter around the nation. But it hasn’t been as bad as what hit in the fall and winter of 1918-1920 when an estimated 50-100 million people died around the world from what was at the time labeled as the “Spanish Influenza.” In the USA, over 675,000 people died from the flu during 1918-19, more than ...
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Frank Norton, co-owner of the Norton Agency in Gainesville, portrayed the Northeast Georgia region as being on the “precipice of unprecedented growth” at his annual forecast talk last week. Norton listed 10 “life-changing” events in the region during the company’s existence and 10 events during 2017 that affected the economy. He ...
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Braselton planners tabled a controversial warehouse request last week after opponents brought a crowd to the standing-room-only public hearing. The request — which would allow 2.8 million square feet of warehouse space on 390 acres on Josh Pirkle Road — was tabled Jan. 22 amid traffic concerns from the Braselton Planning Commission. ...
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A man died in a residential fire on Leigh Street in Commerce. Patrick Gary Emerson, 78, passed away after a woman was unable to wake him to get him out of their residence which had caught on fire. The woman had to get out of the house and was covered in burns and suffering from smoke inhalation. The smell of smoke woke her up.

No one was injured after a Jackson County School System bus struck a house Wednesday morning. According to a JCSS social media post, the driver of the South Jackson Elementary School bus said the accident occurred when the driver stopped to "attend to a sick child." "...the bus rolled and struck the corner of a house," according to JCSS. Six ...
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Jefferson leaders have approved the annexation and rezoning of 41 acres along Hwy. 82 at I-85 for a 980,000 square-foot warehouse, removing one of the conditions placed on the project. Both measures passed Monday with a unanimous vote from the Jefferson City Council. The 41 acres being annexed into the city will be combined with 30 acres ...
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